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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation Disturbance Disruption by Frans-Willem Korsten
This book looks at the way in which the ‘call for justice’ is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the law.The book considers original works of art not dealt with before including Milo Rau’s The Congo Tribunal Elfriede Jelinek’s Ulrike Maria Stuart Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda. The book demonstrates how through art’s interface impasses are addressed new laws are made imaginable the span of systems of laws is explored and the differences in what people consider to be just are brought to light.